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TCS plans

expansion

RECORDER REPORT

KARACHI: The TCS courier service which has an extensive network in Pakistan plans to expand its services to other countries having a good number of Pakistanis so that they may be linked effectively with their families in Pakistan.

Khalid Awan, Chairman, TCS, said on Friday that the company had surveyed the communication system and had found that in the absence of prompt postal service from most countries to Pakistan, the greatest area of need was for workers serving in the Middle Eastern countries to send home their monthly bank drafts reliably, economically, and in the shortest possible time.

TCS stepped into this market niche by offering overnight delivery service, at economical rates, initially from the Middle East and GCC countries to most cities in Pakistan along with delivery acknowledgment.

Awan said with the availability of this service sending money through banking channels was fast becoming the preferred method of home remittances, as compared to 'hundi' which the government wished to be discouraged as it did not contribute to foreign exchange reserves.

He said that the TCS was planning to offer its popular gifts-delivery and greetings service to overseas Pakistanis through the internet, enabling them to order gifts and greetings to their friends and relatives in Pakistan.